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From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

The article became fodder for questions Wednesday before the Fever’s 123-88 victory against the Connecticut Sun.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

Productivity has not been high enough to offset this decline, he said, notably because of rising fodder prices, workforce shortage and higher wage costs.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

Concerns about secretive central-bank deliberations had given fodder to Fed critics in Congress, particularly after Greenspan disclosed in 1993 the existence of near-verbatim transcripts of its policy meetings going back decades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

Starks piled fodder under the big tree near the porch and the mule was usually around the store like the other citizens.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston

Where suitable pasture may be obtained, it is usually a cheaper source of food for cows than soiling food or cured fodders, as the element of labor in giving the food is largely eliminated.

From Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry by Pratt Food Co.

They love the stack and hay-barn in the distant field, where the farmer fodders his cattle upon the snow, and every red-root, ragweed, or pigweed left standing in the fall adds to their winter stores.

From Birds and Poets : with Other Papers by John Burroughs

That there is in the State an enormous area of land which is eminently adaptable to the growing of fodders necessary for successful dairying has been amply demonstrated.

From Australia, The Dairy Country by Australia. Dept. of External Affairs

The same principle applies in a lesser degree to the use of certain green fodders that are more suitable for feed, such as rape, green rye, or even silage.

From Outlines of dairy bacteriology A concise manual for the use of students in dairying by Edwin George Hastings

Dode only smiles at his deep cogitations, as he weeds the garden-beds, or fodders the stock.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862 by Various

I love to start out arter night's begun, An' all the chores about the farm are done, The critters milked an' foddered, gates shet fast, Tools cleaned aginst to-morrer, supper past.

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell

At 2 p.m., or thereabouts, they are foddered again, and at 4 p.m. receive the same food as at the morning meal.

From The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock by Sir Charles Alexander Cameron

"I wonder if I foddered the steers," he went on.

From The Raid from Beausejour; and How the Carter Boys Lifted the Mortgage by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts

Cows have to be milked as well as foddered, and the milk when obtained gives employment to many hands in the various processes it goes through.

From Hodge and His Masters by Richard Jefferies

So I went out again and foddered and watered the mare, for Peter is sometimes a sad fatch and will not always give a horse what is worth its trouble in the eating.

From A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time by Sir Hall Caine

The Universal Soul, as it is called, has an interest in the stacking of hay, the foddering of cattle, and the draining of peat-meadows.

From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau

Every judicious farmer who depends on turnips for foddering his stock in the winter, will do well to guard against the loss sometimes occasioned by the failure of his Turnips from frost and wet.

From The Botanist's Companion, Volume II by William Salisbury

The ploughmen take their dinners in the sheds where the mules are allowed to rest; and since two hours is usually given these animals, for rest and foddering, they, of course, must take the same.

From Step by Step; or Tidy's Way to Freedom by American Tract Society

He came from foddering the cattle in the barn, and from the field, where he had been ploughing, until the depth of the snow rendered it impossible to draw a furrow.

From The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne

We gave the sheep a foddering of hay and then got the flock outdoors.

From A Busy Year at the Old Squire's by C. A. (Charles Asbury) Stephens